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could find no good fruit in (I think) the first week of October. 
Good specimens were sent fresh to me last year by Mr. James 
Britten. After reading Mr. Druce’s careful note, I still incline 
to think this a distinct species. — E. S. Marshall. 
Stdlaria apetala, Opiz. Higham and Kennett Heaths, Suffolk, 
May 1 6, 1910. A characteristic, ephemeral, prostrate, apetalous 
plant on loose soil on the sandy heaths of west Norfolk and 
Suffolk, spreading along the sandy soils into east Cambridgeshire. 
In flower in the same locality on April 20, 1911. — C. E. Moss. I 
have collected exactly the same thing near Mildenhall, West Suffolk, 
in Surrey, and elsewhere ; it differs much in habit from the usual 
coast-plant, which seems to be a. inajor^ Rouy and Fouc. =A. 
apetala, Ucria {vera). I think that Ucria’s name (also adopted by 
Mr. F. N. Williams) is earlier, but do not remember the date of 
his FI. ad Linti. sp. add. These small, compact, inland specimens 
appear to be Rouy and Foucaud’s {l.c., p. 230) 8 . minor, among the 
synonyms given for which are S. Borceana,]or^., and Alsme pallida, 
Dumort. It is thus described : — “ Feuilles caulinaires plus ou 
moins rapprochees, petites (^-i centimetre); plante basse (5-15 
centimetres), a tiges greles, vertes, glaucescentes ; calice poilu, 
a sepales ovales-oblongs-obtus ou obtusiuscules ; capsule ovoide, 
depassent peu le calice.” — Edward S. Marshall. 
Stellaria umbrosa, Opiz. Port Hill, near Shrewsbury, Salop, 
April 1908-10. — J. Cosmo Melvill. One of my specimens, with 
glabrous calyx and pedicels, is correct ; the other two have these 
pubescent, the pedicels are much too short, and the petals do not 
exceed half the length of the calyx : they belong to S. media, Vill. 
— Edward S. Marshall. 
Sagina procumbens, Lin., var. spinosa, Gibs. [ref. No. 64]. 
Near Killin, Mid Perth, v.-c. 88, September 24, 1910. Forming 
large cushions some two feet across on a shady roadside bank. 
The characters have in some cases been somewhat spoiled by 
pressing, but it was quite a distinct plant when fresh. — McTaggart 
Cowan, Jun. Mr. McTaggart Cowan’s beautiful specimens are 
not very characteristic, as the diaphanous bristles are only very 
sparingly produced on the leaf-margins. Gibson (Phyt. 179, 1842) 
gives a reference to Baines’ ‘ FI. Yorksh.,’ but in my edition there 
is no mention of the variety ; nor does F. A. Lees refer to it in his 
excellent ‘ Flora.’ — G. Claridge Druce. Crump in ‘ FI. Halifax ’ 
(1904, p. 17), says “ Gibson’s variety, with ‘ the edges of the leaves 
margined with minute diaphanous spines,’ is not uncommon. . . . 
Specimens in Herb. Gibson." Gibson’s herbarium is preserved in 
the Belle Vue Museum, Halifax. — C. E. Moss. Only a slender 
state of the type. There is an occasional cilia on some of the 
